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American Theatre
American Theatre is a magazine containing news, features and opinions on American and international theatre. Published six times a year by the Theatre Communications Group, this periodical was founded in 1984.Subjects for American Theatre include drama and theatre. Nicole Estvanik Taylor is the Managing Editor and Jim O' Quinn is the Editor-in-Chief.
Articles from Vol. 11, No. 9, November
Actors Put a New Spin on the Old Bard at Stratford
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Is Shakespeare still a player? That was the headline this summer on an essay by classical scholar Colin Burrow in the Sunday Times of London. The answer was a qualified yes, the qualification being that it is precisely the quality of untimeliness--"the...
A Diferrent Me
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What was the impetus for you to turn to playwriting? Well, obviously it's a complicated answer, but initially it just comes from sitting in the theatre and enjoying the experience and finding a value in it for me. And I believe that screenplays are...
A Marriage of Convenience
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Nonprofit and commercial theatre producers have, for good or ill, tied the knot. On her installment last January as new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Jane Alexander called for wider collaboration by commercial producers and nonprofit...
Antigone in New York
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Tompkins Square Park may not be most people's idea of hallowed ground, but for Anita, the protagonist of Janusz Glowacki's Antigone in New York, it's the closest thing to sacred soil. Homeless and half mad, this spiritual descendant of Sophocles' willful...
Comic Monsters in a Box
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Imagine coming home from that archetypal hard day at the office, pouring a glass of Fume Blanc and slipping a stack of CDs onto the stereo. You kick back and let the cares of the day slip away, serenely awaiting producer Will Ackerman's latest series...
Dostoyevsky's Conversion
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The Russian master's stage adapters--and these days they are legion--have to contend with an overabundance of dramatic riches Early on in Dostoyevsky's novel The Devils, or The Possessed, Nikolai Stavrogin--exiled to Switzerland four years earlier for...
Guillermo Gomez-Pena: True Confessions of a Techno-Aztec Performance Artist
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Ross Perot warned us about the giant sucking sound that would come from Mexico when NAFTA was passed. But he didn't say it would be coming from the mouth of the self-styled Warrior for Gringostroika, Guillermo Gomez-Pena. This peripatetic "post-Mexican...
I Have Often Walked
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Enough, no more. 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. Everything I know, needed or not, I first learned in musicals. Really. That's where I encountered Shaw, Wilder, Aleichem, Bergman, Voltaire, LaGuardia and, via Hair, "Fellini, Antonioni, and Roman...
In Search of Theater Journalists
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When American newspapers cover the arts, 80 percent of the time that means articles about film, television and radio, a National Endowment for the Arts study of 50 newspapers across the country revealed. That leaves a mere 20 percent of the already minimal...
John Michael Higgins: A Harlequin Amusing Himself to Death
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For Pierre Marivaux's The Triumph of Love two seasons ago at Princeton, N.J.'s McCarter Theatre, actor John Michael Higgins and adaptor/director Stephen Wadsworth spent hours improvising and refining the crucial first act intermezzo. It begins with Harlequin...
Mein Kampf
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There's a moment in George Tabori's "theological farce" Main Kampf--which received its American premiere at the Actor's Gang in Los Angeles in August--where the young Hitler, up to this point a seemingly harmless, childish buffoon, confesses that what...
Michael Lupu: The Dramaturg as Artistic Conscience
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The first rehearsal for Heinrich von Kleist's The Broken Jug at the Guthrie Theater served as a reunion of sorts. Liviu Ciulei, artistic director at the Minneapolis theatre from 1981 to 1986, had returned for the first time since 1987 to direct Kleist's...
NEA Cut - but Not So Much
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Lively debate precedes acceptance of the House--approved budget A collective sigh of relief was breathed by scores of artists and arts professionals when members of the House and Senate agreed in late September to accept the House-approved budget for...
Notes on a Stonewall Summer
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Gay theatre enters a new phase No use trying to hide it: Gay theatre is no longer young. Not that it's old. The business of putting on plays that reflect gay lives is, by and large, a post-Stonewall phenomenon--and 25 years does not a geriatric make....
The Clowns of Mad River
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Stepping off the plane from heat-puckered Los Angeles into Humboldt County's cool mid-July ocean fog, I'm chilled down to my drought-bleached bones. Lost among the redwoods on California's northern border, rural Humboldt County is as different from L.A....
The Gambler
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Penned under immense pressure, The Gambler was Dostoyevsky's last-ditch attempt to meet a deadline and regain possession of his oeuvre, which he had effectively mortgaged when he signed a grossly disadvantageous contract with an unscrupulous publisher....
The Power of Preparation
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The American Festival Project starts early to cultivate community involvement The audience at the University of Louisville Women's Center sits riveted as a female slave, played by Robbie McCauley, stands naked on an auction block. The play is Sally's...
The Scarlet Letter
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When characters in a Phyllis Nagy play say "I love you," they could mean just about anything. Take, for example, the playwright's adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, playing through Nov. 13 at the Classic Stage Company...
